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Showing 1 to 20 of 357 for “"Democracies"”.
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Economic voting in new democracies
This study investigates economic voting in 70 new democracies that have experienced regime transition since 1974. By incorporating the analysis of elections in virtually all new democracies, this study shows how electorates react to changes in economic conditions under various socio-economic, …
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Choosing Sides: Military Behavior in Severely Polarized Democracies
… behavioral outcomes in severely polarized democracies. When faced with sovereign power disputes that arise as a result of severe polarization, military organizations are most likely to develop new strategies of action from the dominant practices, norms, and ideas of military leaders. Severe …
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Resetting public policy? Democracies, Dictatorships, and Policy Change
Despite regime transitions raising expectations of policy change, the empirical evidence linking regime type and policy is not conclusive and transitions from authoritarianism to democracy —and vice versa— often fail to lead to policy change. In part, such inconclusiveness and mixed outcomes …
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The Political Role of Social Media in Emerging Democracies
… of freedom and political influence. In emerging democracies, pro-government media monopolies often act as powerful anti-democratic forces that prevent journalism from expressing critical views against the political class. However, social media creates opportunities for organizations that are …
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The politics of proximity : local redistribution in developed democracies
Over the last few decades, countries across the European Economic Area (EEA) have granted local governments considerable discretion over social policy. This project examines the consequences of these reforms. Drawing on unique data from over 28,000 European local governments, it demonstrates that …
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Investigating Economic Inequality And Voter Turnout In The Industrialized Democracies
… voter turnout in a sample of 21 industrialized democracies using a pooled time series model of elections from 1970 to 1999. The findings demonstrate a connection between inequality and voter turnout wherein increases in inequality lead to reductions in voter turnout. The ramifications for …
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Radical Democracies: The Politics of the Aesthetic in the Southern Cone
The transitions to democracy in Argentina and Chile have been critiqued by numerous artists and analysts alike, both because of the social and economic continuity from dictatorship to democracy, and because of the democratic states’ occlusion of the violence of the preceding dictatorships. Yet …
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What causes election-related conflict within democracies :a case study of Lesotho
This research sought to understand the nature of election-related conflict and what needs to be done to arrest the eruption of such conflict in Lesotho. It sought the opinions of selectively respondents who have been involved in the conflicts in different ways. The interviews and documented …
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Legitimacy as design: Towards a realist theory of crisis in consolidated democracies
… by citizens’ experiences. Since consolidated democracies are too materially stable to collapse, a legitimacy crisis cannot take the form of systemic breakdown. Instead, it leads to what I call ‘judgement without judicium.’ I suggest that we must think about the ways in which citizens interact …
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Women’s Rights in Limited Democracies: Comparative Study of Femicide in Turkey and Bulgaria
… similar patterns. Both are Republics and democracies, yet currently are struggling with democratic deficiency. Since I compare fairly similar countries and treat each country as a distinct object of the study, the findings tell more about the degree of similarities and differences in the …
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Transnational Organized Crime and Destabilization in Democracies, Russian Organized Crime as Case Study
Transnational organized crime has been prevalent during the last century, but it recently has been recognized as a threat to the world order. Governments throughout the world, along with the intergovernmental organizations identified this phenomenon as a new threat to domestic and international …
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Essays on the Political Economy of Redistributive and Allocation Policies in Competitive Democracies
… of income and allocation policies in competitive democracies. In Chapter 2, I examine incentives for political redistribution through in-kind transfers. By analyzing the political game between office-motivated politicians and self-interested citizens, I first show that in economies with …
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Institutional Feedback and Coalition Politics: The Case of School Choice Policies in Advanced Democracies
… the shift towards school choice in advanced democracies and to explain the variation in policy outcomes observable in these countries. To do so, it examines reforms introduced between 1985 and 2017 in France, Sweden, and Wisconsin, which all moved towards school choice, albeit with varying …
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